John Scott-Railton

“For every public notification like this, you can imagine there’s a huge notification iceberg that the public will never learn about. This is a clear indication that something bigger is going on.”

John Scott-Railton · said date not stated · reported 2026-08-17

Scott-Railton suggested many more spyware notifications go unreported publicly.

“The scale and geographic diversity of public posts about receiving notifications are pretty unprecedented,”

John Scott-Railton · said date not stated · reported 2026-08-17

Scott-Railton told TechCrunch that the volume of public reports about Apple's spyware alerts was unusual.